After digging into the manual, I could find a paragraph that instructed
me to issue the following command to check the virtual IP addresses in
the kernel:

ip addr list

Looking at the "ip" man page, I found that there is possible to make a
"label" appear when you type "ifconfig", but for some reason the
virtual IP scripts don't make use of this.

For the developers: how about adding a text field where the user could
type a short descriptive label for using together with the "ip addr add
x.x.x.x dev INTERFACE label LABEL"? This way the label would appear
when the user typed "ifconfig", right?

Best regards,

Celso.

Greg Forte escreveu:

Can
anyone explain to me how failover ip addresses are bound to interfaces
in the kernel, or why they don't seem to show up in 'ifconfig' output?
I've got one configured and it worked like a charm first try (unlike my
fencing setup, heh), I'm just confused as to why it doesn't appear in
ifconfig.